[Ananova]
What the hell is wrong with you, Greece?

[Wikinews]
White House cuts Hubble from budget.

[Science News]
Flavonoids and food color.

[The New Atlantis]
As egocasting becomes increasingly prevalent, should we be concerned about some of the unintended consequences that may result?

[CTV.ca]
Researchers at the University of Toronto have invented an infrared-sensitive material that's five times more efficient at turning the sun's power into electrical energy than current methods. The film can be applied to any device, much like paint is coated on a wall.

[Guardian Unlimited]
Scientists puzzled by super-fast evolution of human brain: To accomplish so much in so little evolutionary time—a few tens of millions of years—requires a selective process that is perhaps categorically different from the typical processes of acquiring new biological traits.

[Pacific Northwest]
Does multitasking produce cognitive overload?

[Science Blog]
A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain cognitive skills, including reading, math, and logic and reasoning, in children and adolescents.

[Scientific American]
Research suggests that most of the brain's visually related activity is devoted to continuously manufacturing its learned representation of the world—its reality matrix—even in the complete absence of any current stimuli. And new, real-time action is overlaid on that internal representation.